Reflections on the theology of the liturgical calendar, and announcements concerning the original OFS pattern series.
Yet another insane week! May has been the month that has tried for all its worth to tear off our arms and beat us with them. But I’ve learned a lot about celebration and community in the midst of the craziness that is really normal when I’m actually living life. I have to face it: … More Celebration Report Week #6: Moving & Merriment
So, it had been my hope to provide you with several essays leading up to the Pentecost celebration about what the holiday means, the symbolism involved in its celebrations, and the themes associated with it. I should have guessed that between the end of the semester and moving, it’d be a bit much for me. … More Themes in Pentecost
I got a surprise this morning, while catching up on the blogs I usually read. Spin Artiste is a blog that interviews fiber artists, particularly spinners. And this week, she interviewed the amazing lady who, among a bajillion other things, produced the yarn I am using for my Tongues of Fire mystery knit-along! It turns … More A Little Linky
After last week’s CR#2, I realized that my own Book of Common Prayer has abbreviated day names ready to go! So here I go: Easter 3 Monday: This one is easy. April 23rd is hubsband’s birthday, which included much preparation. The diversion was a fancy dinner: steamer clams with linguini and a fun vermouth sauce. … More Celebration Report: Week 3 (or, the week i partied a little too hard)
So now that it’s Easter season, I finally feel released to start some shameless and passionate advertising for the: Pentecost Shawl Mystery Knit-Along! Mystery Knit-Alongs are more or less the most fun thing ever. The way it works is that you sign up to knit a pattern that sounds interesting, but that no one has … More Swatchfest 2012
To all my brothers and sisters of the East: Happy Easter! Christos Anesti! Χριστός Ανέστη! Христос воскрес! This Lent, Holy Week, and Easter have been a particularly cruciform journey for me. It seems fitting then – almost too fitting to sully with words – that the second Easter pattern is a baby blanket, designed after … More Behind the Design: Carolingian Cross
Lilies are the Easter flower. Easter Lilies are particularly so because of their pure whiteness and distinctly trumpet-like shape. Loud and reckless without being garish, vulnerable and precious without being weak. They rejoice without fear, to celebrate the day of the year that we are to celebrate the most with unmitigated joy. When Jesus rose … More Behind the Design: Lilies for Easter
Everyone loves Robert Frost’s famous poem, so much so that to quote it would seem cliche. This project hijacks this old-school meme, just a little bit. The concept is simple, and doesn’t bear much explaining beyond the pattern description. These cables are meandering roads that come together to form the icthus fish – another cliche … More Behind the Design: Road Less Traveled
Out of all the patterns I have designed so far, Rachel’s Tears has the most of my heart and soul packed into it. The name of this pattern came from two places. The first is from an Anglican service in a little booklet called Liturgies and Prayers Related to Childbearing, Childbirth, and Loss; the service … More Behind the Design – Rachel’s Tears
This is Joni’s story. I’ve been blessed to get to know her as a friend, fellow knitter, and erstwhile nerd over these last two years, and she’s been an amazing example of a godly woman who is both a stay-at-home-mom to two small boys, and is completely capable of relating to grownups who don’t have … More Joni
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